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Packets to (and indeed from) CERN seem to be taking the scenic route via
the USA.

I'm curious if this is deliberate...

walker@heppc046:~$ traceroute www.cern.ch
traceroute to www.cern.ch (137.138.144.168), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  138.37.51.254 (138.37.51.254)  0.239 ms  0.172 ms  0.133 ms
 2  ebr3.witless.core-net.qmul.ac.uk (138.37.3.196)  0.359 ms  0.290 ms
 0.296 ms
 3  Te2-2.lond-bar6.ja.net (146.97.40.233)  0.684 ms  0.742 ms  0.740 ms
 4  ae2.lond-sbr4.ja.net (146.97.35.137)  0.685 ms  0.651 ms  0.639 ms
 5  ae12.read-sbr1.ja.net (146.97.33.141)  2.098 ms  2.159 ms  2.128 ms
 6  ae13.lond-sbr3.ja.net (146.97.33.146)  8.198 ms  6.232 ms  6.192 ms
 7  janet.rt1.lon.uk.geant.net (62.40.124.197)  3.783 ms  3.773 ms  3.735 ms
 8  ae3-vlan110.mx1.lon.uk.geant.net (62.40.98.74)  3.728 ms  3.718 ms
3.722 ms
 9  ae0.mx1.ams.nl.geant.net (62.40.98.81)  11.240 ms  11.293 ms  11.297 ms
10  ae0.mx1.fra.de.geant.net (62.40.98.128)  18.069 ms  18.058 ms  18.065 ms
11  ae4.rt1.fra.de.geant.net (62.40.98.135)  18.011 ms  18.035 ms  64.931 ms
12  abilene-wash-gw.rt1.fra.de.geant.net (62.40.125.18)  113.006 ms
113.047 ms  112.805 ms
13  ae-2.10.rtr.clev.net.internet2.edu (64.57.28.162)  120.277 ms
119.935 ms  119.917 ms
14  ae-7.10.rtr.chic.net.internet2.edu (64.57.28.158)  135.090 ms
129.386 ms  129.438 ms
15  e513-a-rbrxl-2-te6.cern.ch (192.91.246.126)  227.000 ms  222.710 ms
 223.052 ms
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